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Nine children killed in storm-lashed Alabama crash; Tornado kills one near Montreal
Jun 20, 2021 (AFP)
Saturday's crash on an interstate highway near the city of Greenville involved at least 15 vehicles and may have been caused by aquaplaning under heavy rains, B...
Western US braced for record heat wave
Jun 15, 2021 (AFP)
"A prolonged and record-breaking heat wave is underway across the western US," said the US National Weather Service, with "above normal to extreme high temperat...
Lightning strikes kill 27 during India monsoon storm
Jun 08, 2021 (AFP)
Lightning strikes during the June-September annual monsoon are fairly common in India. Officials said West Bengal was hit by thunderstorms late Monday, with lig...
Global warming blamed for 1 in 3 heat-related deaths
May 31, 2021 (AFP)
Previous research on how climate change affects human health has mostly projected future risks from heatwaves, droughts, wild fires and other extreme events mad...
Urban 'heat islands' hit Black Americans twice as hard: study
May 25, 2021 (AFP)
From June through August in 175 cities accounting for 65 percent of the US population, districts inhabited mostly by white residents experienced, on average, an...
Lightning kills antelopes, elephants; As tornadoes strike kill 12 people in China
May 15, 2021 (AFP)
Violent winds of more than 260 kilometres per hour (160 miles per hour) blasted the central city of Wuhan on Friday night. Eight people died and more than 280 w...
Deadly storms hit southern US coast
Apr 10, 2021 (AFP)
Millions of people live in the storms' paths along the Gulf coast, including Florida, Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana, where the fatalities were reported. On...
Biggest sandstorm in decade turns Beijing skies yellow
Mar 15, 2021 (AFP)
City residents used goggles, masks and hairnets to protect themselves from the choking dust and sand, with landmarks including the Forbidden City partly obscure...
British study projects rise in heat-related deaths due to global warming
Mar 07, 2021 (UPI)
A new paper published in the journal Environmental Research Letters concludes that deaths in England and Wales will increase from 117 deaths per day to 166 deat...
Fierce winter storm in US seen tapering off
Feb 19, 2021 (AFP)
After days of bone-chilling cold that left millions without power and caused water pipes to burst in oil-rich Texas, temperatures were forecast to be well above...
At least three dead in North Carolina tornado
Feb 16, 2021 (AFP)
The twister tore into the southern part of the state late Monday, particularly impacting two coastal communities in Brunswick County. "At this time, there are t...
Indonesian landslide kills nine with 10 missing
Feb 15, 2021 (AFP)
Twenty-one people were initially reported missing after the disaster struck Sunday evening in a rural part of East Java. Indonesia's Search and Rescue Agency sa...
Tornado leaves one dead, several injured in Alabama
Jan 26, 2021 (AFP)
The storm, which hit the town of Fultondale in Jefferson County late Monday, caused "significant damage," the National Weather Service (NWS) tweeted. One person...
Lake heatwaves to increase due to climate change
Jan 22, 2021 (ESA)
The modelling study, which is validated using satellite observation records generated by ESA's Climate Change Initiative, shows that under a high greenhouse gas...
Lightning strike hospitalises 13 Australian schoolchildren
Dec 08, 2020 (AFP)
The children, aged between between 10 and 12 years old, were playing on the field at their school in Queensland when the bolt struck nearby, a spokesman for the...
Sydney records hottest November night as heatwave sweeps city
Nov 29, 2020 (AFP)
The overnight temperature did not drop below 25.3 degrees Celsius Saturday into Sunday in central Sydney, according to the meteorology bureau, making it the hot...
Ice storms in Russia's Far East prompts state of emergency
Nov 20, 2020 (AFP)
The exceptional weather brought down cables and trees with the government of the Primorsky region declaring a state of emergency. "The situation with the electr...
New studies shine light on bright lightning superbolts
Nov 13, 2020 (SPX)
The studies analyzed lightning events spotted by orbiting satellites. The authors found the brightest superbolts were more than 1,000 times brighter than typica...
Laser-guided lightning may help prevent wildfires
Nov 12, 2020 (AFP)
A team of international scientists have shown storm clouds could be "short-circuited" by using a hollow laser -- like a pipe of light -- to deliver particles in...
Recipe for a storm
Nov 05, 2020 (SPX)
Experts from the University of Oldenburg and the Universite de Lyon have now paved the way for studying small-scale turbulence: The team led by Oldenburg physic...
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